I understand ABCNW leadership has been trying to impose some sort of creedal statement on the churches of that region, woth the result that some there qho had not previously done so are considering joining Evergreen. I gather the church that has moved farthest along in the process is Urban Grace, aka/formerly FBC Tacoma. That church, as I understand (this is all very much hearsay) hired an openly gay music minister, and was told by the region that that action constituted a severance of relationship with the ABCNW. I was just looking at to see if there was anything there to shed light on this stuff, and I found their regional . Reading it, it occurred to me that it rather clearly indicates that divorce (let alone divorce and remarriage) disqualifies a minister from recognized ordination in that region. However (and this strikes me as an unconscionable inconsistency) by omitting the phrase "or any other practices that are contrary to God's creation intent as defined above" from the final paragraph, they keep from having to automatically sever relationship with any church that hires a divorced music minister. Which, I think, gives the lie to much of the preceding verbiage in the document.
Haruo